Israel's War Strategy, House Votes on Fourth Nominee, Meta's Mega Lawsuit
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Our leaders are urging straight as israeli ramp s of air strikes on gaa.

I appealed to all to pull back from the being before the violence claims.

Even more alive is really, officials say a ground invasion is coming. But when and what will IT look like?

I mean, is that Michelle Martin, and this is up first from M. P. R.

news. Republicans can seem to unite behind a leader, replace former house speaker Kevin a. carthy. Can they are fourth nomi, get the job done. The house votes today.

And more than forty states are suing ma, saying IT designed to features of instagram and facebook that harm hits mental health.

No other explanation really fits for why we have a doubling and teen depression.

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For nineteen days, gaza has been relentlessly bombarded by israeli airstrikes in what is believed to be for a ground invasion.

Entire neighbor's hoods in gaza have been leveled, while israel el says it's targeting homosapien t ork. On the ground tunnels. United nation secretary general antonio gut sh called israel strategy a violation of international humAnitarian law.

But affecting civilians can never mean using them as human shows. Protecting civilians does not mean ordering more than one million people to evacuate to the south where there is no shelter, no food, no water, no medicine and no fool, and then continue to bomb. The south security .

council meeting rejected calls for a ceasefire, instead called for a humAnitarian pause in the fighting. Now though, the question remains, when might israel start a ground invasion? And what concerns do american leaders have about israel strategy?

For more on this, we call imperious tom bowen, who covers the pantai on time. Good morning. So on, the U.

S. Secretary of defense has been in regular contact with his israeli counterpart. There appears to be some concern building among U. S. Officials about this offensive.

What more can you tell us what a few things is concerned about this all spreading throughout the region should israel invaded? And with maybe the iranian back militants in lebanon hesba firing its vast amount of missile into israel, concern as well about that israel may not have thought through the implications of a massive ground invasion of gaza.

So, you know, top officials are asking, what are your goals and what about civilians keeping them safe? We're already seeing reports of thousands of palestinian civilian does, and the authors warning the issues that this will be tough in brutal Michelle, worse than the fight to defeat the islamic state in the iraqi city of most. So back in two thousand and sixteen ah we're talking a vast network of underground tunnels, boobie traps, close quarter fighting with hundreds of thousands of civilians in the middle.

Say more about that, the fear that this conflict could spread. What are your sources saying to you about this?

Well, again, it's a major concern. Is iron itself getting involved somehow? That's why you see the american aircraft Carrier attacked aircraft, the missile defence systems that will also protect U.

S. Forces in iraq, syria, by the way, i'm told this is all part of a long standing U. S.

Planes to defend israel. It's been on the shelf for some time. It's not just kind of a haphazard movement of arguments and troops.

What would the priorities for the U. S. Military be in the scenario .

one of the party heart is is keeping U. S. Troops in the region, save the couple of thousand troops in iraq, eight hundred and nine hundred in syria. They have ve already been attacked by iranian back militias, but those attacks by missiles and drones have been dealt t with.

President ban has talked about and has openly said that he would like israel to learn from the mistakes. The U. S. Mate, after nine eleven, you've been talking to a lot of officials about that as briefly as you can. What are those mistakes?

What the mistakes for the us. Were, invading two countries, afghanistan and iraq, overthrowing their governments, and thinking this will all be Better, all fuel by fear, more terrace attacks or suspected weapons of mass destructions in. In both cases, you had gorilla warfare that lasted for two decades, really continuing to this day.

The same could be true here. You destroy him as, but who govern, gather. And are you creating more militants by your tactics that in paris.

time on time? Thank you.

Twenty three days until the government shut down and still no speaker of the house, which means that congress is at a stand still.

Yeah, republicans have even begun to work through the divisions that got everyone here in the first place. Yesterday, top house members voted and nominated tom emer of minnesota. That was just for a few hours. So because he had to drop out when he couldn't locked down the votes to be elected by the full house, then lawmakers went back to the drawing board and nominated a fourth person to take former speaker Kevin car, these place congresswomen mike Johnson, from lousianner.

We're going to serve the people of this country. We're going to restore their faith in this congress. You're going to see a new form of government.

And we are going to move this quickly. This group here is ready to govern, and we're going to govern well. We're going to do what's right by the N.

P. R. Congressional harass found a year or while has been clocking some long hours watching all this. And she's with us now again later. Good morning.

Good morning with so .

can congress on Johnson get alleged by the full house?

That still remains to be seen, but the plan is for the house to vote. Around noon today, he won the nomination inside the G. O.

P. conference. But as we've seen over and over again, he's going to need two hundred and seventeen votes. If all members are present in voting on the house floor, democrats are expected to stay united and vote for their leader. Who came Jeffery?

So tell tell us, mobile Johnson and brew. I'm interested in what he means by this new form of government.

He's fifty, won a social conservative in a member of the house judiciary committee. He was elected in twenty sixteen johns's really a top trump loyalist. He was an impeachment manager for trump s team back in twenty twenty.

He is a constitutional lawyer, and he was one of the republicans drafting arguments against certifying the electoral count from some states. Uh, january six. He's also currently a member of G O, P leadership that's been a strike against others whose won and had to drop out like emr and Steve school's. So uh, it's unclear to me in terms of this new form of government that he's talking about.

And you mention that Johnson is a trump loyalist. How much is present trump influencing this whole process?

You know a lot. You know, trumPeter who won the nomination yesterday was forced to withdraw, as you said hours later after trump took to social media and called emr right now a republican in name only. Trump's support wasn't enough to elect the person he endorsed.

That was ohio republic ican jim Jordan, who was forced to drop out after three failed votes on the floor. But trump's opposition was a huge factor in derAiling emr really short stint as the speaker omy e embers. Vote to certify the twenty twenty election became an issue for him with his colleagues. And now republicans are turning to someone who helped lead the charge to overturn the results of the twenty twenty election.

Okay, so I keep going back to what represent, Johnson said, about the snowford of government has how these last three weeks, what does this say about the republicans ability to govern? What do they say about IT?

I mean, even republicans say it's been chaos. I mean, they've been openly venting and frustrated about the fact that the house just can't function, were less than a month away from the deadline to avoid another government shut down possibly. And the thing that got republicans into this mess is when a group of hearts ride members were mad at the speaker and past to stop up.

Bill is gonna happen again. If can't avoid a shutdown next month. There's also concerned about being unable to help a top ally, israel.

who's at war. And if representing Johnson does get the gavel, what's on the agenda first .

mean that nomination to, uh avoid to shut down on november seventeen th there's this huge foreign aid package that his own party is split on. Johnson opposes more money for ukraine. Um we also expect republicans will focus back on an impeachment inquiry that something Johnson was a big part of that .

is mp s do to well due to hope you get some rest .

today special.

Forty one states are suing .

meta for allegedly designing products that addict teens and worsen their mental health. State prosecutors say.

Some features of facebook and instagram violate consumer protection and children's city.

And for our tech reporter, bobbi ellis with us. And now to tell us more about this symmons boby. Good morning. Okay, tell us what the case that the states are.

making sure the case boiled down to this state prosecutors say metal created something they're calling, doping, manipulating features and their features. Everyone who uses social media. O very well, right? The algorithms at the side, what we see when we log on to facebook and instagram, the ability to, like, oppose being able to score endlessly without limits.

These features got teens hopped, and the states say matter, knew that teens self esteem would suffer once they got addicted to facebook and instagram. Now you might be thinking, okay, but how is that against the law? And the states say, deliberately designing a product in a way that violates consumer protection laws.

Some observers are lightening these suits to the lawsuits. Of the one hundred ninety is against, speak tobacco. I talk the gene twi about this. She's a professor of psychology, yet t Sandy ago state university and SHE says he hopes these lawsuits .

force made to change. These days when we see people smoking there in the small minority and we think, what are they doing? Maybe we'll think that way in the future. About twelve the odds and fourteen year old being on social media .

and what's met his response? yeah.

Meta issued a statement saying IT shares the concern of state prosecutors like them, they want teams on facebook and instagram to be safe, but you know, matter. Having indirectly addressed the substance of these suits, legal experts are expecting matter to invoke something called section to thirty. Sounds very technical, but it's a decades old federal law that protects tech companies from lawsuits over what users post on their sites.

And for years, the law made that nearly impossible to win a successful civil law hood against the tech company. But this is starting to change. Increasingly, there is this novel legal tactic that is getting around section to thirty, and that involves suing companies over essentially shady design, looking at social media almost as a product that should have been recalled because IT was harmful. That is similar to what the states are doing here.

As briefly, you can say more about what this research does say about social media affect on team mental health.

Yeah, you know myself, this has Sparked a lot of debate, but I talked to twanged Sandy ago state university about IT. And SHE herself has been a research on some really large studies that have looked at teens nationwide. In fact, some of her work excited by prosecutors in these lawsuits, and he says adolescence are in the midst of a mental health crisis. Consider this fact, between twenty eleven and twenty twenty one team, depression has double. And while there's many ways to explain this time, he says the obvious one to her is social media.

No other explanation really fits for why we have a doubling and teen depression at a time, and the economy was doing well and crime was going down. And almost every other indicated fourteenth who was getting Better. But they were spending a lot more time on social media, a lot less time with each other faced face and less time sleeping.

Now the courts will decide whether matter ignoring similar research constitutes breaking the law or just business as usual.

That is in paris. Bobby Allen, Bobby, thank you.

thanks.

And that's a first for wednesday, october twenty five. I'm a hal Martin .

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